Le Monde, a leading French newspaper, published an editorial titled “The persecution of my people”. Rufina, a 16-year-old Uyghur girl from Uyghuristan/East Turkistan, tells about the Chinese oppression of Uyghurs in their homeland, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.
Cultural Preservation
Language is a God-given gift to every nation, which we often take for granted. In the west, a person can exercise freedom of speech without the fear of being detained for one’s words.
Uyghurs, a Turkic people living in Uyghuristan (East Turkistan), are not enjoying these rights. It is practically forbidden for them to use their mother tongue publically or display Uyghur language signs in their occupied homeland.
The US Uyghur Mother Tongue School in Fairfax, Virginia, hosted a ‘Mother Tongue Day’ event attended by the parents of the Uyghur students and many regular Americans learning Uyghur.